{"id":1403,"date":"2025-04-04T10:16:31","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T10:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dengtai.art\/artists-and-projects-roster\/karol-szymanowski-quartet\/"},"modified":"2025-04-08T12:41:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T12:41:45","slug":"karol-szymanowski-quartet","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dengtai.art\/en\/roster\/karol-szymanowski-quartet\/","title":{"rendered":"Karol Szymanowski Quartet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n  <div class=\"banner has-hover\" id=\"banner-1692894905\">\n          <div class=\"banner-inner fill\">\n        <div class=\"banner-bg fill\" >\n            <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"931\" src=\"https:\/\/dengtai.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Szymanowski-Quartet-1-banner-1-scaled.jpg\" class=\"bg attachment-original size-original\" alt=\"\" \/>                                    \n                    <\/div>\n\t\t\n        <div class=\"banner-layers container\">\n            <div class=\"fill banner-link\"><\/div>            \n\n   <div id=\"text-box-480376971\" class=\"text-box banner-layer x50 md-x50 lg-x50 y50 md-y50 lg-y50 res-text\">\n                                <div class=\"text-box-content text dark\">\n              \n              <div class=\"text-inner text-center\">\n                  \n\n<h1><span data-text-bg=\"primary\"><\/span><\/h1>\n\n              <\/div>\n           <\/div>\n                            \n<style>\n#text-box-480376971 {\n  width: 100%;\n}\n#text-box-480376971 .text-box-content {\n  font-size: 100%;\n}\n<\/style>\n    <\/div>\n \n\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n\n            \n<style>\n#banner-1692894905 {\n  padding-top: 500px;\n}\n#banner-1692894905 .banner-bg img {\n  object-position: 50% 20%;\n}\n<\/style>\n  <\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"row row-full-width\"  id=\"row-942458433\">\n\n\n\t<div id=\"col-352781588\" class=\"col small-12 large-12\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner text-center\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n\t<div id=\"col-414953434\" class=\"col small-12 large-12\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner text-center\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n<div class=\"container section-title-container\" ><h1 class=\"section-title section-title-center\"><b><\/b><span class=\"section-title-main\" style=\"font-size:120%;\">Karol Szymanowski Quartet<\/span><b><\/b><\/h1><\/div>\n\n<h3>\u5361\u7f57\u5c14\u00b7\u5e2d\u66fc\u8bfa\u592b\u65af\u57fa\u56db\u91cd\u594f<\/h3>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n<style>\n#col-414953434 > .col-inner {\n  padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\n  margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\"  id=\"row-1580915411\">\n\n\n\t<div id=\"col-593968560\" class=\"col small-12 large-12\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dengtai.art\/en\/artists-and-projects-roster\/agata-szymczewska-violin\/\">Agata Szymczewska Violin<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dengtai.art\/en\/artists-and-projects-roster\/robert-kowalski-violin\/\">Robert Kowalski Violin<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dengtai.art\/en\/artists-and-projects-roster\/volodia-mykytka-viola\/\">Volodia Mykytka Viola<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dengtai.art\/en\/artists-and-projects-roster\/karol-marianowski-cello\/\">Karol Marianowski &#8211; Cello<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This Warsaw foursome has superb technical control, innate musicality and an extraordinary sense of ensemble. Couple that with a deep understanding of their repertoire and an involvement that communicates itself electrifyingly to an audience, and the Karol Szymanowski Quartet bears the hallmark of greatness.\u201d (Paul Cutts in \u201eThe Strad\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>The Karol Szymanowski Quartet\u2019s 30th anniversary year is a year of renewal: with Agata Szymczewska, Robert Kowalski, Volodia Mykytka and Karol Marianowski, the ensemble presents itself to the music world in a different line-up and, by returning to its original name, also forges a link to its roots.<\/p>\n\t<div class=\"img has-hover x md-x lg-x y md-y lg-y\" id=\"image_994988745\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"img-inner dark\" >\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1020\" height=\"680\" src=\"https:\/\/dengtai.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/szymanowski-quartet-3-1024x683.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dengtai.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/szymanowski-quartet-3-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dengtai.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/szymanowski-quartet-3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dengtai.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/szymanowski-quartet-3-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dengtai.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/szymanowski-quartet-3-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/dengtai.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/szymanowski-quartet-3.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1020px) 100vw, 1020px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<style>\n#image_994988745 {\n  width: 100%;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\"  id=\"row-1224531665\">\n\n\n\t<div id=\"col-1068085060\" class=\"col small-12 large-12\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\t<div id=\"text-1687106379\" class=\"text\">\n\t\t\n\n<h3>Introduction<\/h3>\n\t\t\n<style>\n#text-1687106379 {\n  text-align: center;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n<p>The Karol Szymanowski Quartet began its chamber music education at the Hanover University of Music and Performing Arts with Hatto Beyerle, who recognized and encouraged the professional standard of the ensemble\u2019s playing at an early stage. Eberhard Feltz, Walter Levin, Alfred Brendel, Seiji Ozawa, Bernard Greenhouse, Friedemann Weigle, as well as members of the Amadeus, Emerson, Juilliard and Guarneri Quartets were other important mentors.<\/p>\n<p>A master class with Isaac Stern in New York, which, after many weeks of intensive work, led to concerts at Carnegie Hall, was particularly formative for the quartet\u2019s further development. Numerous prizes and awards followed, for example at competitions in Weimar, Hannover, Melbourne, Osaka and Florence.<br>Beginning in 2001, the quartet benefitted from a three year membership of the BBC\u2019s \u201cNew Generation Artists Scheme\u201c The Karol Szymanowski Quartet has received great recognition for its exploration of Alban Berg\u2019s music and for the first performance of works dedicated to the quartet. But it was above all as ambassadors of Szymanowski\u2019s string quartets and the music of Polish and Eastern European composers, including Witold Lutos\u0142awski, Sofia Gubaidulina, Mieczys\u0142aw Weinberg and Krzysztof Penderecki &#8211; with whom the quartet had a close working relationship &#8211; that enabled it to enter the top rank of the international music scene over the next few years; a commitment that was honoured in 2005 with the renowned \u201cSzymanowski Prize\u201c and in 2007 with the Polish Medal of Honour.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This engagement with their musical roots took on a special character in 2008 with the founding of the \u201cLviv Chamber Music Festival\u201c, a chamber music festival on the border between Ukraine and Poland. On the initiative of the Karol Szymanowski Quartet, Lviv, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, became for seven years a musical and cultural meeting place for numerous artists and ensembles, including Gidon Kremer, Khatia Buniatishvili, Nicolas Altstaedt and Oleg Maisenberg, who were invited to take part in cultural exchanges and joint concerts.<\/p>\n<p>The Karol Szymanowski Quartet is primarily concerned with the search for connection and exchange beyond epochs and national borders. On this understanding, the musicians devise exciting concert programmes with great enthusiasm and experience, which are highly praised by critics and audiences alike. Whether music by Korngold, Schoenberg, Stravinsky and Tansmann is heard in one evening, or compositions by Sofia Gubaidulina and Benjamin Britten are juxtaposed &#8211; the ensemble always succeeds in revealing the multi-layered connections in an intelligent and inspiring way.<\/p>\n<p>This approach is also reflected in the Karol Szymanowski Quartet\u2019s exciting discography, which includes works by Haydn, Dvo\u0159\u00e1k and Shostakovich, as well as numerous rarely recorded compositions by Bacewicz, Zelenski, Zarebski, Friedman, Weinberg and R\u00f3zycki. A three-part series is dedicated to the music of Karol Szymanowski in the context of the three music capitals Paris, Vienna and Moscow, the most recent recordings include \u201cLes Vendredis\u201c, a collection of string quartets by various Russian composers, which were performed at the famous Friday concerts of the publisher Belaieff at the end of the 19th century.<\/p>\n<p>However, the ensemble\u2019s close connection to its audience is created above all in the numerous live concerts it performs around the globe. The quartet has been a guest at renowned concert halls such as New York\u2019s Carnegie Hall, London\u2019s Wigmore Hall, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Vienna Musikverein, the Berlin Konzerthaus and the Shanghai Symphony Hall and has performed at the international festivals in the Rheingau, BBC Proms, Schleswig-Holstein, Schubertiade and Lockenhaus as well as concert series in Los Angeles, Paris, London, Warsaw, Basel and Perth.<\/p>\n<p>In every concert, the quartet shows itself to be open to the unexpected and the unpredictable, to new impulses and thoughts. And so, a uniquely intimate atmosphere is always created that inspires audiences worldwide and has carried the Karol Szymanowski Quartet through every renewal and change for almost 30 years.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\"  id=\"row-114285068\">\n\n\n\t<div id=\"col-1888983196\" class=\"col small-12 large-12\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\t<div id=\"text-1130827222\" class=\"text\">\n\t\t\n\n<h3>Gallery<\/h3>\n\t\t\n<style>\n#text-1130827222 {\n  text-align: center;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n  \n    <div id=\"gallery-527568214\" class=\"row large-columns-2 medium-columns- small-columns- row-masonry\" data-packery-options='{\"itemSelector\": \".col\", \"gutter\": 0, \"presentageWidth\" : true}'>\n\n  <div class=\"gallery-col col\" >\n          <div class=\"col-inner\">\n            <a class=\"image-lightbox lightbox-gallery\" 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